As an amazing parent you want your child become a safer swimmer this summer! Traditional swimming lessons won’t give you that! Here are 3 reasons why your kids don’t need swimming lessons this summer:

Episode 001 of the Swim Discovery Podcast with Jim & Jeff Wood.

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Jeff Wood: [00:00:00] What is going on everyone. Welcome into the Swim Discovery™ podcast presented by SwimAble.com. We are your hosts. This is Jim wood, and I am Jeff Wood. And we are here to deliver an Epic podcast for you today, as we talk about the three reasons why you do not need to sign up for swimming lessons this summer, and what better timing than right as it starts to get warm, to talk about this for our parents and drive a lot of value.

Jim, are you ready to dive on in and unpack this?

Jim Wood: [00:00:30] I’m ready to dive in and unpack. I’m excited about this topic because last summer, you know, most kids didn’t end up in swimming lessons as a, as a swim lessons, business ourselves. We took a big hit last year. Parents just had concerns about going to organize swimming lessons.

Of course, this summer we’re already seeing, well this spring, I should say we’re already seeing an uptake in registrations. So I’m anticipating things to go back to somewhat normal this summer for most parents. And which means that everybody’s going to be [00:01:00] rushing to get swimming lessons in the summer.

And Jeff and I are an excited, we’re very excited actually to give you three reasons why your kids do not need swimming lessons this summer to learn how to swim. And I think we should just go right into what those three reasons are. And then we can take deep dives. So swimming lessons are too slow for your learning.

Swimming lessons are too expensive, and they’re going to fill your summer with headaches and distractions for your kids. And so you don’t want your summer to be like that. So yes, we can kick it off like that.

Jeff Wood: [00:01:31] Yeah, absolutely. So topic number one, Jim, you mentioned swimming lessons are too slow, so let’s unpack some of the core reasons why swimming lessons are too slow.

And I think the easiest place to start. Really is twofold. Number one, the amount of exposure that kids actually get when they’re in organized swimming lessons. So a normal swimming lesson for most programs is somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes [00:02:00] long. And that means, and typically only meets once a week.

So what that means is over a month, your swimmer may only be getting two hours of total organized swimming lessons. And that doesn’t even count the fact that the majority of the time, your swimmers, not the only one in the class, not to mention, not the only one in the class, but most likely they’r